Advanced Writing with English in Use

7 Februar y 1999

T heplann ingcommitteehasaskedme to pass on all
thedetailstoyou so you can makethe boo kin g as
soo nas you finda su itable hot elin Cardi ff.

First,we'vefina llydecidednot to start till the
Saturdayaf ternoon(that'sSeptember3rd) with a
sessionat 4.30whereall the delegatescome
together.So we' ll need theconfere nceroom then.
T hatwill finish some time before 7.00, then we'llall
havedinnertogether the n maybe go out to explo re
Cardiff.Afterbreakfaston Sundaymorn ingwe' ll
havese minars from 10.00 till1.00, then lunch at
o ne0 'clock, thenseminarsagainfrom2.30 to 4.00 ,
thentea. We 'llnee d four differentse m inar room s, so
peoplecan choosewhich ta lks they go to.Then on
Sundayeveningwe'vedecidedto setoffin groups
to try out someofthe restaura ntsarou nd the town.
Afte rall,we don' twant to be stuc k in the hote l
eve ryevening,especially if the ir food 'snutmuch
good.

Monday'sprogrammewillbe jus t the sameas

Sunday' s,except we' ll ea t o ut againforluncho n

Monday. T he n intheevening we'llhaveanotherbig

meetingintheconferenceroomwitheveryone

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together (same time as Saturday) and then a big

d innertogethe r 10 the hot el in the evening.

Actua lly, I'm a bitworriedaboutthehotel food. We

had eno ughproblem s at the EastE uro pean

co nference,when all the vegetaria ndi she s ca me

w ithe itherhamo r tuna. You'dbett ertellthem tha ta

th ird of us preferto eat vegeta ria n.Then atleast we

won'tall be eatingsa usagesandchips!

Iforgot to mentionthatin the confe re nce room

we'll need a videorecorde randa TVsc reen forDr

Schumach er 's talk. Intheseminarrooms, we'll

prob abl y beOKwithjustwhiteboards.

The othe r thingIhaven 'tto ldyou about i s num bers.

At the moment, it sta ndsat 36dele gates , sixof

who marealso bringinghusb andsorwiveswho

won'tbe invo lvedin the tal ks butwill takepanin

everyotherrespect.So thatma kes a totalof 42 in

26 single room s and8 double room s. '

Iho~eth isisn ' ttoo muddled- I' m gladit' s you

whos doin g theorgani zingI

A ll the best,

Claus

Part 1 tasks likethis ofteninvolve a carefulselectionof information .The

follow ingare details from theletters.Aftercarefulconsiderationof the purpose

of the letter and the 'target reader' , markw hether the detailsshould be

mentioned in yourlette r:are they absolutely essential(A), not essential(B), or

completely irrelevant(C).

1 theConferenceMa1lageris calledM rsL/lmley

2 S(J[;CIII ethe roomiciihthe biggestbath!

3 thenmaybegooutto exploreCa rdiff

..J \l'c'l!need[onrdifferelll semina rm oms

5 (/thirdofli SlJr"£fertoeatliege/arian

6 atleast wel CO/l',alllJeeating , w/Ilsagcsandchips!

7 a cideoreco rder lim!(JTVsc ree"forDrSclnnnachcr'sta lk

8 he'llbe comingillhisscheelclunr

2 Writethe lett ertoThe RoyalHotel (about250 words). You will probablyneed

to start byre-readingthe information and underlining everything youneed to

include, thenmaking notes. You may layoutyour requirementsin any suitable

way.

Task bank:Task 2 6

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